Red River Valley

Divisional Plan

Professional Learning Funding provided by Manitoba Education - Please provide details below

1) To date, how have you used the money your division received for K-8 teachers' LwICT professional learning in 2008-09 and 2009-10?
Provide 2 half day LwICT mentor sessions. One day Mimio training for about 20 teachers. Will offer an session in spring 2010. Brought in Ian Jukes to speak to all our teachers.

2) What professional learning is occurring now because of the extra funding that you previously not able to do?
Teachers have networked to learn about: mimio, smart board, epearl, website sharing, wikispaces, google docs.

3) Does your division have any strategies for ongoing professional learning (For example: Professional Learning Community - online, face-to-face, mentors, etc?)
We have found that small group dynamics, sharing ideas work the best for professional learning.


4) What successful strategies would you like to recommend to other divisions?
The half day mentorship in your own building works very well.


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Report Card Samples

5) How often do you report on Literacy with ICT during the school year?
Each school is different. Some report once in Spring. Most schools report 2 times a year.

6) Which grades are reporting on Literacy with ICT?
K-8
7) When does the reporting occur?Spring around March

8) What feedback have you received from parents regarding reporting of Literacy with ICT?
Very little if any feedback.

9) In certain circumstances, a child may have more than one teacher. How would/do your teachers report on a child's literacy with ICT in this circumstance? Please discuss with your divisional team and record some possible strategies to address this issue.
Usually the teacher who spends the most amount of time with the students report their LwICT.

10) If there have been changes to your divisional statement of belief on reporting on LwICT, since last year, upload or insert the text below.


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Transition to Senior Years

11) Thoughts on Literacy with ICT transition to the Senior Years
Our division is at the beginning stages. Exploring using the format that K-8 used in their implementation. All schools are starting to go with mobile laptops to enable classroom access.
12 )Ongoing support for K-8 teachers
Uncertain at this point. We do have an LwICT committee that will look at different strategies for ongoing support.